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Doomsday men : the real Dr. Strangelove and the dream of the superweapon / P. D. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Peter D. (Peter Daniel), 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atomic bomb--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Scientists.
- Szilard, Leo.
- Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
- Fermi, Enrico.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Beginning or The End? xvii
- I The Dream
- 1 A Black Day 3
- 2 The Gift of Destruction 12
- 3 The Plutonium Collector 29
- 4 Nature's Secrets 52
- II The Chemist's War
- 5 The Prospero of Poisons 83
- 6 The Man Who Ended War 98
- 7 Einstein's Open Sesame 122
- III The Dark Heart of Matter
- 8 The Capital of Physics 149
- 9 The Inventor of All Things 163
- 10 Faust and the Physicists 179
- 11 Eureka! 207
- 12 Wings over Europe 224
- IV The Battle of the Laboratories
- 13 'Power Beyond the Dream of a Madman' 239
- 14 Conceived in Fear 264
- 15 Devil's Work 280
- 16 Destroyer of Worlds 304
- V The End of Dreams
- 17 The Doomsday Decade 339
- 18 The Hell Bomb 365
- 19 Khrushchev's Monsters 396
- 20 Strangeloves 419
- Epilogue: 'The Tragedy of Mankind' 437.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312373979
- 031237397X
- OCLC:
- 141386436
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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